Émilienne Malfatto
Émilienne Malfatto | |
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| Born | 1989 |
| Occupation | Photojournalist |
Émilienne Malfatto (born in 1989) is a French author, photojournalist, and independent documentary photographer.
She won the 2021 Goncourt Prize for a First Novel for her book Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre (Let the Tiger Weep for You) and the Albert Londres Prize for Les serpents viendront pour toi: une histoire colombienne (The Snakes Will Come for You: A Colombian Story).
Biography
[edit]Émilienne Malfatto was born in 1989.[1] She studied in Colombia and France, graduating from the Journalism School of Sciences Po.[2]
She began her career at the Colombian newspaper El Espectador in Bogotá,[3] then worked for eight months at the Middle East bureau of Agence France-Presse (AFP).
In 2013, she worked at the Middle East-North Africa office in Cyprus and traveled to Iraq, which was at war at the time.
In 2015, she was stationed in Bodrum, Turkey, where she met refugees and produced the reportage Dernière escale avant la mer (Last Stop Before the Sea), which won the France Info-XXI Prize.
In January 2020, she traveled to Baghdad to cover the Thawra, the Iraqi revolution, for the Washington Post. Her photographs were exhibited at the Visa pour l’image festival in Perpignan in a collection titled Iraq: A Hundred Days of Thawra.[4]
In September 2020, she published her first novel, Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre. Written in a simple yet striking style, it tells the story of the last day of a young Iraqi woman who is about to be killed by her brother for being pregnant out of wedlock.[5][6] Published by Elyzad, a Tunis-based publishing house, the novel garnered attention, receiving a special mention from the 2020 Prix Hors Concours readers. A finalist for the Régine-Deforges Prize, Malfatto was awarded the 2021 Goncourt Prize for a First Novel.[7]
In June 2021, she published an investigative essay, Les serpents viendront pour toi: une histoire colombienne, focusing on the disappearances of social leaders in Colombia. She investigates the assassination of Maritza, a mother of six living on a mountain farm.[8] The work, published by Les Arènes, was shortlisted for the Albert Londres Prize,[9] which she won on November 15, 2021. In 2022, she presented her book Le colonel ne dort pas on the show La Grande Librairie on France 5.
Publications
[edit]- Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre (Let the Tiger Weep for You), Elyzad, 2020 ISBN 978-9973-58-122-8 , ISBN 9973-58-122-9, OCLC 1191811456
- Les serpents viendront pour toi: une histoire colombienne (The Snakes Will Come for You: A Colombian Story, Les Arènes, 2021 ISBN 979-10-375-0409-8, OCLC 1260142743,
- Le colonel ne dort pas (The Colonel Doesn't Sleep), Éditions du sous-sol, 2022 ISBN 9782364686649.
Major Exhibitions
[edit]- 2020: Visa pour l'image Festival (Perpignan, France) – Iraq: A Hundred Days of Thawra
- 2020: Photo Schweiz (Zurich, Switzerland) – Fallen Angels
- 2021: Les Femmes s'exposent Festival (Houlgate, France) – Le dernier Eden[10]
- 2021: Zoom Photo Festival (Saguenay, Canada) – Fallen Angels[11]
Awards
[edit]- 2015: France Info-Revue XXI Prize for Dernière escale avant la mer
- 2019: Grand Prize for Documentary Photography by IAFOR for Al-Banaat
- 2020: Special mention from readers of the Prix Hors Concours for Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre
- 2020: Finalist for the Régine-Deforges Prize for Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre
- 2021: Goncourt Prize for a First Novel, Prix du roman métis des lecteurs, and Prix des lecteurs de la médiathèque de Saint-Renan for Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre
- 2021: Albert Londres Prize for Les serpents viendront pour toi: une histoire colombienne
References
[edit]- ^ "Littérature sans frontières - Émilienne Malfatto, lauréate du Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman 2021". 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Emilienne Malfatto remporte le prix France Info-XXI". 15 October 2015.
- ^ "Le prix Albert-Londres de la presse écrite revient à Caroline Hayek, journaliste à « l'Orient-Le Jour »". 15 November 2021.
- ^ "Irak : Cent jours de thawra".
- ^ ""Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre" : Emilienne Malfatto plonge au cœur de la tragédie du crime d'honneur dans une famille irakienne". 21 April 2021.
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- ^ "Emilienne Malfatto prix Goncourt du premier roman pour "Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre"". 4 May 2021.
- ^ "Les serpents viendront pour toi : Une histoire colombienne (Les Arènes - 9791037504098) | Livres Hebdo".
- ^ "Prix Albert Londres : la présélection 2021 – Prix Albert Londres".
- ^ "Emilienne Malfatto | le dernier Éden".
- ^ "New exhibitions 2021". 20 September 2021.
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